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Woody
La biografía
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Con más de cuarenta y cinco películas dirigidas y una larga carrera como actor, cómico, escritor y músico de jazz, Woody Allen es uno de los artistas más polifacéticos de nuestro tiempo. Desde sus inicios con El dormilón, hasta su último estreno Café Society, todas las películas de Woody...
Tales From The Till
True stories from the lighter side of a life in retail.
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Internationally known wildlife photographer, David Young, takes a look back on his first career... as a retailer in a career that spanned 30 years..
“Tales from the Till” is a collection of vignettes, covering the lighter side of a life in retail. First as a young lad, making his way in...
Respect
The Life of Aretha Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz.
Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them...
Positively 4th Street
The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound and a style that are one of the most lasting legacies of the 1960s
When Bob Dylan, age twenty-five, wrecked his motorcycle...
Nelson Riddle
The Man Behind the Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
David Morrell isnt only an acclaimed thriller author. Hes also a former professor of American Studies who writes in-depth profiles about music and film legends.Frank Sinatra. Nat “King” Cole. Ella Fitzgerald. Judy Garland. Peggy Lee. Rosemary Cloony. Linda Ronstadt. No matter their various styles,...
On Some Faraway Beach
The Life and Times of Brian Eno
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
From an idiosyncratic childhood in a sleepy British market town to the top of the international pop charts, this first critical examination of the life of Brian Eno charts a lengthy and colorful journey. Interviews with many key collaborators-such as David Byrne, Robert Wyatt, John Cale, Bryan Ferry,...
Frank Sinatra
The Artist and His Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
David Morrell isnt only an acclaimed thriller author and the creator of Rambo in his novel First Blood. Hes also a former professor of American Studies who writes in-depth profiles about film and music legends.Frank Sinatras dramatic life sometimes upstaged his genius. Although he was the greatest interpretive...
This Is All a Dream We Dreamed
An Oral History of the Grateful Dead
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, Blair Jackson and David Gans, reveal the band’s story through the words of its members, their creative collaborators and peers, and a number of diverse fans, stitching together a multitude of voices into a...
A Fine Romance
Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook—the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies—and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews.
An acclaimed...
by David Stuart Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
The amazing story of the rise of John Lennon's group - The Beatles - to fame and fortune.David Stuart Ryan carried out a great deal of original research into the true background to John, speaking to many of the characters who helped formhis intense view of the world. This was backed up...
by David Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Bestselling author David Dalton goes in seach of the real Bob Dylan in an electrifying biography that puts all the others in the shade.As an artist Bob Dylan has been a major force for half a century. As a musical influence he is without equal. Yet as a man he has always acted like an outlaw on the...
by David Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
As a young photography student in 1980, David Jamaica Brooks struck gold and was personally invited to tour the US with Bob Marley and the Wailers.Marley had to cut the tour short, due to illness, and, tragically, the performances were his last.This is the amazing story of how a student found himself...
Dangerously Funny
The Uncensored Story of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour -- the provocative, politically charged program that shocked the censors, outraged the White House, and forever changed the face of television.
Decades before The Daily Show, The Smothers Brothers...
'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky
Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
David Henderson's biography of Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age -- first published in hardcover in 1978 -- was described by Greil Marcus of Rolling Stone as "[t]he strongest and most ambitious biography yet written about any rock and roll performer." The paperback edition...